In the performance program Concert for tomatoes and pine composer Plato Buravickis, sound artist Ivo Tauriņš, young musician Lauris Šmits, RIXC residency artist Daniels Hengsts (EMARE / Germany) will participate. The authors of the project are artists Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits together with VR artist Kristaps Biter. The live concert will be available here.
Ars Electronica is one of the world ‘s largest festivals of contemporary art and digital music, which takes place every year in Linz, Austria, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the world. This year’s festival Ars Electronica from 9 to 13 September will mainly take place online and will be a conceptual journey through Kepler Gardens. In 2020, the festival is designed as a journey through networked habitats and ecosystems, where people from all over the world work to develop and shape our future and, most importantly, to preserve it. Kepler’s garden Around 120 artists’ communities and institutions from around the world take part in the festival’s online and live tour.
Kepler’s garden In the international program, Latvia is represented by two experienced digital art institutions – RIXC Art and Science Center and Liepāja University Art Research Laboratory MPLab. This year RIXC Ars Electronica The garden participates in the program with an ambitious program PLA(N)Tform, which includes a virtual exhibition in collaboration with the Biodesign Laboratory at HfG University in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Concert for tomatoes and pine no RIXC Forest laboratories.
In the performance program Concert for tomatoes and pine composer Plato Buravickis will play his composition Red Wave, which reveals information as fluctuations. Oscillations form various shapes that resonate and resonate. Tracing the oscillations with which it resonates, it turns out that the sound and color are not much different, that a person is not much different from a tree – he is only alive and lifeless. The composition does not study color, but the meaning of waves (oscillations), which would stimulate being united with all living things.
Sound artist Ivo Tauriņa Generated forest is a composition and multi – channel sound installation made this summer at the RIXC rural residence. The work deals with the relationship between nature and technology. In nature, everything happens cyclically – life on earth is provided by continuous geological and biological energy exchange processes. Today’s challenge could be how to maintain a balance between man, nature and technology, as man-made technologies could be the basis for fundamental changes in business practices.
A composition by the young musician Laura Šmita Rivers in the Sky studies the global water cycle as water travels from trees to the atmosphere and back to earth. In the forest, each tree is like a fountain, absorbing water from the ground through the roots and, through the pores of the foliage, releasing water vapor into the atmosphere. These countless trees create huge rivers of water in the air, creating clouds and rainfall hundreds of kilometers away.
Artist from Germany Daniel Hengst (Daniel Stallion), who is currently residing in Latvia at the RIXC artists’ residence CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, will perform a multimedia performance, providing an insight into his upcoming work of virtual reality art – Blooming Love. The work brings the viewer into a seemingly strange and unfamiliar immersive VR environment: here unusually colored leaves and fantastic flowers intertwine with unusual plant shapes and sizes. The stems of plants pierce the human body without injuring it. Initially, the slightly vague tension created by the shape, color and sound of the surroundings will intensify the intimate, original love relationship between the viewers and the nature of these plants.
Forest laboratory, which is the venue of the concert, is a new art study on climate change, the greenhouse effect and human-plant interactions launched this summer by artists Rasa and Wright Schmidt; in this respect it is also a continuation of Schmidt’s work of art Talk to me. Human and plant communication. In the forest laboratory In addition to the new pine, which is equipped with environmental sensors that simulate future climate change in the greenhouse, there is also an online communication interface. Talk to me. The artists invite this week to go to https://talktome.rixc.lv/where you can talk to Forest laboratories plants. Messages recorded online are read through the speakers Forest laboratories tomatoes and pine growing in the greenhouse, where the concert will take place.
From Wednesday, September 9, at 15 here an online exhibition will be on view PLA(N)Tform: Virtual BioSensing.
PLA(N)Tform is a virtual garden or Felix Guatari (Felix Guattari) a “virtual organism” created by a “rhizomatic network” in which biological and digital objects grow and develop together to form new “ecosystem” relationships. PLA(N)Tform is a speculative experiment by Bruno Latūra (Bruno Latour) “the idea of ”coexistence of the earth”, in which biological, technological and atmospheric processes become “ecosystem-space” or “plantropocene”, as Natasha Maiier calls it (Natasha Myer)in which the “gardens” of plants and people grow and develop in the interplay of each other …
PLA(N)Tform works of art in which they are grown are exhibited in a virtual environment telegrāfaugi and mimosa, and devices are used to track and visualize plant movements, and photogrammetry is used to create a virtual environment in which to experience “natural nostalgia” during isolation. The young artists conducted various studies on the relationship between humans and plants, using sensors for communication. While living in Germany and longing for home, the Korean artist created a small garden in her room, where she performed edible plant growing and cooking performances. Artists from Germany and Norway, on the other hand, used digital environmental scanning technologies to discover forest and underwater worlds through an ecosystem perspective, creating “mirrored gardens”, “forest stories” and “floating thickets”.
In the virtual exhibition PLA(N)Tform: Virtual BioSensing, curated by Rasa Šmite, features innovative works of digital art created by young artists from Germany, Korea, Norway and other countries: Jūlija Ils (Julia Ihls) Kira Elena Adamsa (Kira Ellen Adams), Alehandra Miranda Janus (Alejandra Miranda Janus), Margrete Emilija Kule (Margrethe Emilie Kühle), Congena Lee (Jung Eun Lee), Izabella Mūniha (Isabella Münnich), Eleonora Fanca (Eleanora Pfanz), Krīstina Vinke (Christina Vinke) Karmena Vestermeiere (Carmen Westermeier).
More information on the RIXC website: rixc.org
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